I've also found that folks often have junk phones and I need to get pictures, txt on short turn around and am willing to seed my work with my own phone if it takes. 

Plant seeds but don't plow the ground.

I wasn't raised around the guy or anything, but he is family, he wants to be close, and if I'm honest with myself, there's probably a seed of doubt in my heart wondering if I'll be able to accomplish all this alone or find someone who sees all the great things I can do and will want to partner up.  

You have to use "Seed Capital" to buy a property if you don't have the $40,000 cash to buy one.

Your 'luck' will change, because you are sewing the seeds of success now!

The referral aspect too from being an agent is great as well, you may have planted a seed here with me.   

@Robert Seed and I do some turnkey deals.

Tell your investor to write the first check to the attny, and then seed the company account to get proper write offs.

2 attorneys:  Brian Cloud                      Luke Henderson  If you are looking to sell the property please let me know.Cliff Seeds, Seeds Properties,

So you can buy there and spend it all on a down payment for one property OR you can buy outright or leverage that same amount of money to own many many properties in another part of the country, creating equity in those properties and making enough to easily pay that mortgage in SF AND having money left over as well.4) to give an analogy this sounds like - you are hungry and have one seed to plant at the moment.